Painting eggs in Romania

One of the most interesting lunches we had in Romania was the one at the house of a lady - Viorica Semeniuc - who is an expert in painting eggs. We first ate a picknick lunch in her garden. The weather was sunny. The white wine was perfect.

Then she came with her very modest utensils. A tin with an electric lamp to heat the wax. Some wooden “pens” with very small pipes at the end. These pipes held the fluid wax to put on the eggs.

The technique is like the Indonesian Batik. You put wax on the parts that should stay unchanged / uncolored. So put on wax and color the egg with one color, put on another layer of wax and paint again in another color….  

  Every layer you put more wax and the pattern gets more intricate. 

Yellow.....

Red.....

Black.......

Finally you warm the egg above the lamp and remove the wax with a cloth.....

This time the result is a colorfull pattern.

Afterwards this demonstration she brought in some very elaborate painted eggs. 

Thanks to Viorica Semeniuc (Moldovita - Romania)

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